main building entrance of Universidad San Sebastián in Santiago de Chile

José, Sebastian, and Svenja in front of the lab

On Tuesday, I visited the lab and learned about their ongoing projects in digital history, medieval studies, and literary studies: from mapping the travels of Spanish kings, to applying NLP methods to "La Araucana", to analyzing 19th-century travelogues, etc.
labhumanidades.uss.cl/que-hacemos/

Foto des Posterbeitrags »Glaube, Liebe, Zukunftsangst – und Zimtkuchen. Ergebnisse einer szenenbasierten Analyse weiblicher Dialoge in GerDraCor mit dem Bechdel-Wallace-Test«

Noch ein #DraCor Poster auf der #DHd2026, von Sören Barkey (@unipotsdam.bsky.social).

tl;dr:
»Somit bestehen rund 5% der deutschsprachigen Dramen in DraCor den Bechdel-Wallace-Test in der vorliegenden Operationalisierung.«

Abstract:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Call for Posters #CCLS2026

There will also be a poster session at #CCLS2026 hosted by @dhpotsdam.bsky.social in May! The call for posters is open until 🔜 March 3.

Apparently, 750 co-presence networks from the German Drama Corpus get you the 1st place at the #DHd2026 poster award! Congrats to the @dracor.org team! 🎉
The winning poster in hi-res: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
A small riddle: try to find the network with just one node there!

Abstract: Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt einen hybriden Analyseansatz vor, der word-embedding-gestützte Topic-Modeling-Verfahren mit Distinktivitätsmaßen kombiniert, um Textgruppen zu vergleichen. Wir haben ein Topic-Modell für eine Sammlung von 600 französischen Romanen trainiert, distinktive Topics für jedes Subgenre ermittelt und diese Topics dann mit manuell erstellten textuellen Gattungsprofilen verglichen, um die Leistung verschiedener Distinktivitätsmaße bei der Identifizierung von distinktiven Topics zu evaluieren.

Macht es nicht wie ich, verpasst nicht unseren Vortrag zu BERTopics und Keyness!

Heute in der Session "Automatisierung und KI" ab 9:00 (aber unseren Vortrag erwischt ihr auch noch, wenn ihr um 10 Uhr kommt!) im Hörsaal 5.

@cnDuKeli und Julia Röttgermann […]

[Original post on fedihum.org]

Seminarraum mit Teilnehmenden, vorne links steht die vortragende Person, rechts ist eine Abbildung mit einem Diagram zu sehen

@cris-ortega.bsky.social talked about his multimodal corpus-based approach to poetry slam

Vortragende Person links vorne in Seminarraum, rechts sind die Vortragsfolien zu sehen mit dem Titel „Distant Reading of Gender - Ideen und erste Ansätze“, lila Hintergrund

@m-k-schumacher.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy on Distant reading approaches of gender in literature

CCLS2026 Call for Posters

One week left for submitting a poster proposal for #CCLS2026! #CallForPosters 🔜 03.03.26

As always: #OpenData & #OpenCode
@nmhouston.bsky.social. 2026. nmhouston/Rhymefindr: Rhymefindr (v1.0.0). Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

🕵️‍♀️ How do we detect rhyme? 🔍📜
Rhymefindr introduces a set of R scripts based on the critical tradition of historical poetics: operationalizing the rules from John Walker’s "A Rhyming Dictionary", a key 19th-century references on rhyme.
#R #scripts #CLS

JCLS article preview

🥳 It's time for a new article in #JCLS 5 (1)!
@nmhouston.bsky.social. 2026. “Rhymefindr. An Historical Poetics Method for Identifying Rhymes in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry.”
🔗 doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
#CCLS2025 #ComputationalPoetics #DigitalHumanities #LiteraryComputing

About four weeks left to submit your poster proposal and be part of #CCLS2026 in beautiful Potsdam!
Deadline: March 3, 2026
jcls.io/site/ccls202...
@dhpotsdam.bsky.social

CCLS2026 Call for Posters

📢 Call for Posters #CCLS2026:
Do you have a #CLS project, exciting work in progress, or an interesting error analysis to discuss?

Submit your #poster proposal by March 3 and be part of the hybrid conference!
jcls.io/site/ccls202...

Preview Call for Papers

Did you miss the call for papers for #CCLS2026 in Potsdam, but still want to participate with a contribution? Our call for posters is still open until March 3: jcls.io/site/ccls202....

Comparison of Days Passed from Final Acceptance to Publication (2022 vs. 2023 vs. 2024 vs. 2025)

From final review to publication

We're especially proud of our accelerated publication process, from final acceptance to article publication. That's when the editors and editorial assistants handle: copyediting, code review, typesetting, publication, and article advertising.
#AcademicPublishing #Journal

JCLS Welcome Slide of the Board Meeting 2026

Today was our annual board meeting, where the editors reported on the first 4 issues of #JCLS with statistics on the submission/acceptance ratio, conference participation, and the accelerated publication process since the first issue.
#LiteraryComputing #Journal #CCLS2026 #NewYear #Issue5

Neues Palais, Potsdam

🗓️ Mark your calendars!

#CCLS2026 will take place in beautiful #Potsdam 🏰 on May 28-29. Join us in person 👥 or online 💻 to discuss cutting-edge research in #CLS.

📚💻🔍 jcls.io/site/ccls2026/
@dhpotsdam.bsky.social #DH #LiteraryComputing

Call for Posters at CCLS2026

📢 Call for Posters #CCLS2026:
Do you have a research idea for a #CLS project, exciting work in progress, a tool demo, or an interesting error analysis or negative results to discuss?

Submit your #poster proposal by March 3 and be part of the hybrid conference!
jcls.io/site/ccls202...

JCLS Workflow from CfP to Publication

At the moment, we're screening your articles and sending out the #review requests. If you want to know more about our #workflow, see: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... and doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#CCLS2026 #journal #LiteraryComputing #JCLS #OpenAccess #DoubleBlind #Review

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Thank you for all the submissions we received for this year's #JCLS conference track!
#CLS #CCLS2026 #LiteraryComputing #DH #Conference

As always: #OpenData & #OpenCode
Axel Pichler, & Nils Reiter. (2026). AxPic/poem-int-eval: v1.0.0 - Paper Publication Release (v1.0.0). Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Table 3: Category-wise evaluation scores. Likert scores are averaged over both annotators, correlation measured between individual Likert scores and percent agreement.

🔍🧠 Their experiments show that #LLMs can produce reasonable poem descriptions, but struggle with more abstract interpretion, highlighting where #NLG currently meets its #limits in #LiteraryInterpretation.

#LiteraryComputing #Evaluation #GenerativeModels

Figure 1: Schematic depiction of the workflow in this paper.

🧩📚 How can we #evaluate poetic interpretations produced by #LLMs in a way that aligns with #LiteraryStudies?
The authors propose a #workflow grounded in reference #interpretations and argumentative structures from literary scholarship, enabling the #assessment of LLM-generated readings.

Article Preview

📢 New article in #JCLS 5(1)! 🎉
@axelpichler.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy, Endres, M. & @nilsreiter.de (2026) “#Interpretation, Argument, #Evaluation. A Workflow for Assessing #LLM-Generated Interpretations of #Poetry” doi.org/10.48694/jcl...

#RollingIssue #NLG #CLS #LiteraryComputing

📆 Mark your calendars: the 7th edition of CHR will take place 5–8 January 2027 in Manchester, UK, organized by the Center for Digital Humanities, Culture and Media at The University of Manchester.

We hope it’s the perfect way to beat the post-Christmas and New Year blues. See you at #CHR2027!

As always: #OpenData & #OpenCode
Yuri, B. (2025). Computing Imagism Code Repo. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Figure 3: Imagist vs. love poems in terms of dictionary features and embedding-based metrics. We use the feature values of the example poem lines among the most and least imageable lines as reference points in each case.

🎨📜 Through 3 experiments, including a case study on Imagist vs. love poetry, the authors show how multimodal embeddings help operationalize literary imagery at scale, while grappling with compositionality and the multimodal nature of literary meaning.
doi.org/10.48694/jcls.4219
#LiteraryComputing

Figure 2: Histplot using the norms and entropies of example sentences among the most and least imageable sentences from the 9,000 sampled sentences of the Chicago Corpus as references.

🧠📊 How can we measure imageability in literary texts?
The authors approach how words evoke sensory experience and test whether multimodal #WordEmbeddings can better capture #imageability, #visuality, and #concreteness than text-only models, from words to sentences to poems.
#CCLS2025 #JCLS #CLS

🆕 New issue, new article!
We’re excited to open JCLS 2026, 5(1) with its very first publication:
“Encoding Imagism? Measuring Literary #Imageability, #Visuality and #Concreteness via Multimodal Word #Embeddings” by Bizzoni, @pascaleispunk.bsky.social & Nielbo. 📖✨
#JCLS #CCLS2025 #LiteraryStudies

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📢 The call for papers for the conference track is closing soon. Submit by tonight, January 8 (AoE), and be part of #CCLS2026 in beautiful Potsdam this May. #CfP #CLS #OpenAccess #JCLS #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #LiteraryComputing
ℹ️ jcls.io/site/cfp/